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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Let me help you out with how anecdotes work.

Let’s say that last year my cat, one of thousands of cats in the country allowed outside caught 2 mice. This year, my cat has caught 10 mice so far.

That’s hard, cold evidence of the number of mice within range of my cat or perhaps of my cat’s hunting efficiency, but to conclude anything about the national population of mice would be a mistake.

Get it?


41 posted on 04/14/2013 8:40:25 PM PDT by AntiScumbag
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To: AntiScumbag

Excuse me, one last post. You’re registered on Free Republic since June of 2000 and just starting posting acerbic diatribes against posters here in March of 2011? Why wait 11 years to post anything? Sleeper. You’re a Democrat lawyer, probably ACLU and you’re a troll. Permanent goodbye. The next thing you post to me will be talking to yourself only.


43 posted on 04/14/2013 9:41:53 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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